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“I’m not saying it’s the same. I’m just saying the government can do anything it damn well pleases, and people suffer,” she said. “And we don’t learn one scrap from history.”
“Good marriages are never as interesting as bad affairs.”
― Tom Lake
― Tom Lake
“Dr. Hoffman told me the word kumbaya was originally an African American spiritual, a song that was also a prayer asking for divine intervention, asking for help in dire times, and that then the hippies in the sixties took it and sang it to mean unity amid protest, and then it got played out and became a stand-in for corniness about togetherness.”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
“You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,” Maisie said. I couldn’t, and I don’t. Nor do I pretend that all of us being together doesn’t fill me with joy. I understand that joy is inappropriate these days and still, we feel what we feel.”
― Tom Lake
― Tom Lake
“putting on a show to ultimately wield power for control, and though this fact existed in his head as a truth, it was kept a kind of secret, which hurt to keep, which hurt to carry, like so many unspoken truths one privately knew one really didn’t want to know about oneself.”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
“Long-distance runners are a breed of their own,” Clark remembered. “They are generally thin, somewhat introverted, friendly as a group, dedicated to self-improvement, [and] intelligent.”
― His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
― His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
Mrs.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mrs.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
688 books
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16 friends
95 books
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278 friends
153 books
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7 friends
952 books
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7 friends
278 books
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6 friends
10 books
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1 friend
595 books
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106 friends
2,377 books
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16 friends
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